The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

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Seite 1 1 I MIGHT pass over without a word the whole line of railway communication
between New York and Atchi- son, on the Missouri River, were it not that the
uniform kindness of its officers to the party of which I was a member, and their
interest in ...

Seite 4 Stern Justice and Domestic Felicity were both satisfied in the little family party
which sat — grown people on boards, children on knees, babes in arms —
cracking grim jokes with each other till the dreadful melodrama should begin. ,
The trial ...

Seite 8 The Massasoit House, though far enough from resembling its ever-memorable
namesake in Springfield, was still a very creditable hotel for a place on the
extreme borders of civilization; and we should have slept well but for the fact that
a party ...

Seite 17 By this time the whole party were greatly distressed from loss of sleep. A more
sad-eyed, out-all-nightish set I never saw anywhere. But all of them except myself
were just far enough gone in fatigue to take cat-naps against their strap or in their
...

Seite 23 ... to him or not, he must have acknowledged that he felt so, had he been of our party. We had not yet reacquired the old muscular tone of former forest- camps,
which makes sleep, on a log-floor and a blanket, as refreshing as on the
springiest ...